Halloween Nail Tutorial

Holidays are an excellent time for nail techs to display creative themed manicures and Halloween especially offers a spooktacular amount of fun ideas to showcase your talents. You can stick with nail lacquer colors in a range of oranges, purples, greens and blacks. Or, go glam with glitters and shimmers. You can highlight fine detail work by using nail brushes and tools. A great Halloween manicure can really enhance any costume as well. From goblins to princesses... the possibilities are endless for Halloween manicures!

Use your professional beauty talents to increase business by posting your work on social media (like Instagram), making sure to add hashtags so interested people can easily find you when searching. Also, add designs to a service menu and present current clients with a variety of options for Halloween manicures before their appointments. It is an excellent idea for up-selling extra manicure services, and also can showcase any salon retail nail collections you have in your salon. 

Here is one gorgeously ghastly Halloween manicure example that features 3 different looks on one hand - a black matte nail, a black and orange ombre accent nail and a black matte accent nail with glossy spiderweb. 

 

featured Nail Lacquer:

• China Glaze Nail Lacquer  - Liquid Leather 
• China Glaze Nail Lacquer,  To Catch a Color  Collection - Pathalogical Liar Liar  
• China Glaze Nail Lacquer,  To Catch a Color  Collection - Get Off My Cold Case 

Featured top coats:

• China Glaze Patent Leather Top Coat (for spider web design)
• Cuccio Colour Matte Top Coat 

Tools used:

• EZ Flow Fine detailing brush  
• Fanta Sea Latex-Free Foam Wedges 

Black with Spider Web Accent Nail

Follow Steps 1 & 2 for solid matte nail, proceed to Step 3 for spider web accent design

Step 1:
Polish nail with two coats of black polish.

Step 2:
Apply one coat of matte top coat and allow to dry.

Step 3:
Using a fine detailing brush and clear top coat, paint spider web design onto the nail.  Allow to dry.

Black/Orange Ombre Accent Nail

Step 1:
Polish nail with 2 - 3 coats of orange polish and allow to dry.

Step 2:
Paint a stripe of black as well as a stripe of orange onto a make-up sponge and roll onto the nail, with orange being the color closest to the cuticle. Repeat on each nail until desired saturation.

Step 3:  
Paint the glitter polish onto a make-up sponge and gently sponge onto the orange portion of the ombre nail.

Step 4:  
Apply matte top coat and allow to dry.